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Bingo. A diabetic dies of organ failure due to complications from Covid, and some people want to blame diabetes. But they lived for 50 years with diabetes and didn’t die until they got Covid.

No, he’s not. About 90% of what he posts is stuff like this.

"every" wasn't accurate, but neither is "most", because most could mean 51%. "overwhelming majority" probably suffices.

Yup. Had an extremely close exposure at work Friday to a breakthrough case from someone who had the Pfizer. Glad I had the moderna, but still keeping an eye on things for the next few days.

On a depressing note, found out a pretty good friend of my wife and mom died overnight from Covid. They worked with her for about ten years, and she’s been over to my house several times. 59 years old, no real risk factors, afraid of the vaccine. It’s a shame. She was an excellent teacher and a very nice lady. It had been several months since anyone I knew well had died from Covid, but now we’ve got two funerals to go to. It’s definitely getting out of hand again.

It’s exactly the same. Doesn’t speak well for either side.

So he decommitted to Texas but they're in his top-3 still?

the point I was making is that 99.5% of the people who had covid and died in texas since February are unvaccinated. You can use semantics to debate whether it was covid or some other factor that killed them. I'm debating that half of one percent of Texans who had covid after being vaccinated didn't die from covid or mitigating circumstances while they had covid.

is fox a legitimate source? and you questioning anyone's sources is the dumbest thing on the internet today.

every major health organization, the vast majority of scientists, and the vast majority of healthcare workers say the vaccine works. All research says the vaccine works. He's not the one drinking the kool-aid.

pretty irrelevant, when you look at the numbers. I don't care if you call it dying OF covid, or dying WITH covid. if 99.5% of people who've died "with" covid were unvaccinated, then there's not much to argue about, semantics or otherwise.

Pretty perfect example of the anti-vaccine playbook. Hundreds of thousands die from Covid- “no big deal”. One vaccinated person dies from Covid- “see, the vaccine doesn’t work!” It’s the dumbest double standard I’ve ever seen. Same thing with ignoring all of the deaths from Covid, but then 8 people out of millions get a rare blood clot from the vaccine, 1 dies, and the anti-vaxxers are screaming about the dangers of the vaccine (while comparing Covid to the flu). I can understand the choice to not get the vaccine, but I truly don’t understand those who devote so much effort into trying to convince people that they shouldn’t get it.

Surely this is smoke and mirrors. They’re winning state next season, right?

DEVELOPING: Suspect dies after chase ends in Chambers County with crash, shots fired | KFDM

yes, i saw that. hopefully everything continues to go well.

It’s definitely political. I understand some distrust of both a new vaccine and the government, but it’s a shame that politics are costing a lot of people their lives. I guess it’s always been that way, though.

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We had a lot of speculation on this one awhile back, but it appears the police were just taking their time since the suspect was already in jail on other warrants.

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I got the moderna, two jabs, a month apart. My arm hurt a lot the first time. Felt like I got hit by a hammer for about 24 hours. I was a little tired the day after (woke up at 7, took a short nap around 9, went to bed pretty early. The second shot didn’t hurt at all, again I was a little tired the next day, but very busy and my sleep pattern was normal. My wife was achy and tired for a couple of days after her first shot, a little tired after the second. My stepdad had no side effects, stepmom no side effects, my real dad a little tired. All of them had moderna except my dad, who got the Pfizer

I don’t worry about their safety. Kids don’t seem to be affected much by it, generally. My kids had it last summer, one had no symptoms, the other a mild headache for a couple of days. The problem we run into is when they’re exposed we have to shut down for 10 days, can’t send them anywhere, and have to stay home with them. Or pay twice the daycare rate to someone who’s willing to risk being around them. It’s just all such a tough situation.

It’s a tough line to walk. You’re basically saying that your argument is that no safeguards should be enforced. I struggle between not wanting people to be told what to do, but also having an issue with how many people take zero precautions and are fueling the pandemic. many people aren’t being “responsible citizens” and are spreading the virus at record rates. I don’t know what the answer is, honestly. I don’t think people should be forced to take the vaccine. I wish more people would, and the numbers are showing the benefits of doing so. Many people I know who were against it are now taking it. I’ve talked to people who didn’t, got very sick, and now wish they had. I still know people who haven’t gotten sick, or were lucky and it was mild, that are still anti-vaccine. I know a (very small) handful of people who got hit hard by Covid that are still completely anti-vax. That should be their right. I don’t have a problem with mask mandates, especially in private businesses. They do help to some degree, and it’s still really strange to me that people who are required to wear and do many things by law have decided that wearing a mask to slow the spread of disease is somehow the greatest infringement on their liberties of the 21st century. I didn’t have a single case of flu or Covid spread in my classroom the entire school year last year, and we wore masks and had social distancing, and shut down briefly during one of the local severe outbreaks. We also required a mandatory wait time to return to school for anyone who was exposed, and sent home classes and busses that had known cases for two weeks. It was a sucky year, but we stayed healthy. Almost nobody at work now is wearing masks or social distancing. I don’t have a choice but to be around them. I mean, technically I have a choice, I could quit my job, but that’s not a realistic option for people who need to feed their families. I chose to get vaccinated, so the risk to me is fairly small, but other people’s choices still affect me. For instance my kids had to go to daycare the last two weeks when my wife and I went back to work, but before school starts. Several unvaccinated workers at the daycare got sick early this week, and I’m now having to pay a substantial daily rate to a babysitter to watch the kids while we work, and also having to wait and see if my unvaccinated kids get sick. So their choices have certainly affected me significantly. So all that said, I don’t know what should or should not be enforced, but it’s also pretty clear that letting people “live as responsible citizens” isn’t working. People who want to be “responsible citizens” generally don’t have a choice as to whether or not they’re going to be around the irresponsible.

A couple of months ago our local hospitals had some days with zero new Covid patients. Currently they’re having to put up temporary medical tents outside of the hospital due to having so many patients. I would assume they’re pretty overwhelmed, and have heard as much from some hospital workers I know.